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EPC in Australia: Germany’s EPC powerhouse Belectric has installed its first new PEG fixed-tilt ground-mounted PV design in Australia, and is planning two more before year end. Belectric claims that the system provides the lowest levelized cost of energy among all other competitors’ offerings in the country

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Charles W. Thurston

04 Oct 2017

Annual investment in renewables in Australia has soared in 2017 to almost $6bn, but an unambitious NEG could strip the sector of enthusiasm and cash, says BNEF. | Photo: YD Projects

“We are the lowest cost ground-mount system technology in Australia,” suggests Bernhard Beck, the Managing Director for Kolitzheim, Germany-based Belectric’s international unit. Belectric is now part of innogy SE, an offshoot of German energy giant RWE. That lowest cost number is dynamic and moving downward, according to Sustainable Energy Research Analytics (SERA). The consultants estimate …

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